The YellowLighted Bookshop, Lewis Buzbee
The YellowLighted Bookshop, Lewis Buzbee
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The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop
A Memoir, a History

Author: Lewis Buzbee

Narrator: Mikael Naramore

Unabridged: 6 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/15/2022


Synopsis

A book can open an entire world of experience or provide a recipe for meatloaf. Either is wonderful to Lewis Buzbee, who has spent much of his life in bookstores as a bookseller, a sales representative, and a customer. In The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, Buzbee celebrates the unique experience of the bookstore—the smell and touch of books, getting lost in the deep canyons of shelves, and the silent community of readers. He shares his passion for books, which began with ordering through The Weekly Reader in gradeschool. Interwoven throughout is a fascinating historical account of the bookseller trade—from the great Alexandria library with an estimated one million papyrus scrolls to Sylvia Beach's famous Paris bookstore, Shakespeare & Co., that led to the extraordinary effort to publish and sell James Joyce's Ulysses during the 1920s.

Rich with anecdotes, Buzbee offers a delightful look at bookstores past and present. For those who relish the enduring pleasures of spending an afternoon finding just the right book, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop is the perfect choice.

About Lewis Buzbee

Lewis Buzbee began writing in 1972, at the unripe age of 15. He sold his first two short stories in 1979 and has been published, and unpublished, since then. Since 2000, he's been on the faculty of the MFA program at the University of San Francisco. He and his wife, the poet Julie Bruck, live with their daughter Maddy in San Francisco, just half a block from Golden Gate Park.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeffrey

“November, a dark, rainy Tuesday afternoon. This is my ideal time to be in a bookstore. The shortened light of the afternoon and the idleness and hush of the hour gather everything close, the shelves and the books and the few other customers who graze head-bent in the narrow aisles. There's a clerk......more

Goodreads review by Jessaka

Nostalgia What a lovely book. It brings back so many memories of the times That I have spent in bookshops, But unlike the author I never went to them when it was raining out. Still, I wish that I had for I know the feeling of being in a store during rainstorms, such as the times that I frequented ant......more

Goodreads review by Lisa

Every time I read about an author’s account of books & reading, I now compare them with Anne Fadiman’s book Ex Libris and they simply never live up to her work, an unfair assessment perhaps since I love Fadiman’s book so much. However, this is a special book too. It’s a seemingly effortless mesh of a......more